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SACV goes to Ireland!

May 27, 2018 by Julian

This month saw SACV’s first international outing!  We spent a long weekend in Ireland and joined in with voluntary work being done by Mountain Meitheal, a group of environmental volunteers who have for the past fifteen years undertaken conservation and restoration projects on mountain and forest tracks and have won awards for their work.

Our volunteer Mike is a past member of Mountain Meitheal and nobly organised the trip over to Ireland for nine SACV members.  In glorious weather, we worked with Mountain Meitheal on path maintenance and waterbar construction on Three Rock Mountain (Saturday 5th) and were taken on an instructive guided walk (Sunday 6th) around Glendalough to see some of Mountain Meitheal’s past projects.

It was a great weekend.  Very big thanks to Mountain Meitheal who gave us a warm welcome, contributed very generously to the cost of our accommodation and were informative and engaging guides to the local area.  And of course – very big thanks to Mike who came up with the idea and planned the weekend, booked the ferries and youth hostels, drove the minibus and pulled the whole thing together!

 

Walking near Bray
Walking near Bray
Volunteers at work
Volunteers at work
Shifting a boulder
Shifting a boulder
Working on waterbar
Working on waterbar
Mountain Meitheal volunteer sign
Mountain Meitheal volunteer sign
Shifting a boulder
Shifting a boulder
Breakfast at Knockree Youth Hostel
Breakfast at Knockree Youth Hostel
Walk at Glendalough
Walk at Glendalough
Guided walk near Glendalough
Guided walk near Glendalough
On boardwalk above Glendalough
On boardwalk above Glendalough
Upper lake at Glendalough
Upper lake at Glendalough

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